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01-05-2008, 06:07 PM
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| Astrea Snail Join Date: Nov 2007
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  |  Skimmer is making my tank shoot bubbles?
I just turned on my skimmer and the tank now has a lot of air bubbles shooting out of the nozzles why? As soon as I unplug the skimmer the bubbles stop. I never changed anything with the set up I just simply unpluged it for about 2 weeks while I treated the tank. Can anyone help? |
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01-05-2008, 06:15 PM
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| Giant Squid  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 44
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The bubbles sometimes go away when the skimmer goes through the "break-in" period. If not,try placing a sponge on the outlet of the skimmer. That should do the trick. Luna
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01-05-2008, 06:19 PM
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I have a sponge where it dumps back into the wet dry Now I'm noticing like slime comming out off all my corals floating to the top of the tank. Should this be happening? Am I hurting the tank or corals? |
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01-05-2008, 06:20 PM
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Its filling up with foam like in about 5 to 10 min? I have to keep dumping it out.
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01-05-2008, 06:33 PM
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What kind os skimmer is it? How long has the tank been running?
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01-05-2008, 06:35 PM
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| Giant Squid  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wonderland
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Sometimes you have to adjust the flow to stop the bubbles. Also as mentioned above a break in period often is associated with microbubbles initially and then they disipate!
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01-05-2008, 06:40 PM
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| Gnarly Old Codfish  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 63
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01-05-2008, 06:40 PM
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The tank has been running for 4 1/2 months I was running the skimmer after like 2 1/2 months then I bought a fish that had a parasite or somthing and he infected my whole tank I treated the tank for a while. I bought new fish and everything was perfect. I dont know the name of it. I'll try to post a pic. |
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01-05-2008, 06:41 PM
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The flow is all the way down. Is the slime thats comming off the corals normal? Thanks for everyones help!!!! |
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01-05-2008, 06:48 PM
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Here are some pics     |
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